The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel
Princeton University Press, 1987. 1st. Cloth. A crisp, very solid copy of the 1987 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Thivk octavo, 595 pgs. More
Literary Criticism
Keats's Shakespeare: A Desciptive Study Based on New Material
London: Oxford University Press, 1928. A handsome copy of the 1929 1st edition. Clean and VG in its dark leatherette, with bright gilt-lettering along the front panel and spine. Light foxing to several of the preliminaries and selectively along a number of the pages but still very presentable and well-preserved..... More
The Tragedy of Tolstoy SIGNED
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1933. Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION BY COUNTESS ALEXANDRA TOLSTOY on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1933 1st UK edition, translated into English from its native Russian by Elena Varneck. Tight and VG in its light-green cloth, with..... More
The Cult of the Gaucho and the Creation of a Literature
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947. Original Wraps. 1947 reprint of the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, for October, 1947. VG in its beige wrappers, with very light scuffing at the front panel. Octavo, 42 pgs. More
Virgil's Augustan Epic
Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1989 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (with very small former owner stamp at the front free endpaper) in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 280 pgs. More
Political Writings 1919-1929: The Question of Parliamentarianism and Other Essays
London: NLB (New Left Books), 1972. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1972 1st English language edition, translated from the German by Michael McColgan. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine example of the uncommon dustjacket. Octavo, edited by Rodney Livingstone. More
Heathen Rage
New York: Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1931. 1st. Cloth. The 1931 1st edition. "How We Heathen Feel About Those Who Try to Make Us True and Beautiful and Good....How Is It People Can Seriously Pick Themselves Out to Be Professors, Physicians, Lawyers, Artists and Even Ministers in a Day Like..... More
The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition (Review Copy)
The University of Chicago Press, 1971. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1971 1st edition. A Review Copy to boot, with The University of Chicago Review Slip laid-in. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. More
Essays and Marginalia (2 Vols.)
London: Edward Moxon, 1851. 1st. Full-Leather. The 1851 1st edition, complete in 2 volumes. Bound in a full, light-brown calf, with raised bands and bright gilt-rule and lettering along the spines. Light scuffing at the panels and very light chipping to the spine labels. Still though, solid and VG and..... More
Lives of Northern Worthies (3 Vols.)
London: Edward Moxon, 1852. Full-Leather. The 1852 "new" edition, complete in 3 volumes. Each volume bound in a handsome light-brown calf, with raised bands and bright gilt-rule and lettering along the spines. Light wear and scuffing to the panels and light wear to the outer hinges but still solid and..... More
Voltaire and Candide: A Study in the Fusion of History, Art and Philosophy
Princeton University Press, 1959. Cloth. A crisp, very appealing copy of the 1959 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with very mild fading along the spine. Octavo, "The La Valliere" manuscript of "Candide" published at the rear. More
Derrida and the Economy of Differance
Indiana University Press, 1986. 1st. Cloth. The 1986 1st edition. Solid, tight and VG+ (with small former owner stamp and date at front free endpaper) in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing --and one tiny chip-- along the rear panel's lower-edge. Octavo, 285 pgs. More
Emily Dickinson's Reading 1836-1886
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966. Cloth. The uncommon 1966 1st edition of this scholarly look at Emily Dickinson's reading. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light rubbing at the fronnt panel and spine, and mild offsetting to the rear panel. Still though, very..... More
Amerique SIGNED
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1986. Pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED BY JEAN BAUDRILLARD across the first blank endpaper. A crisp, bright copy to boot of the 1986 1st edition, published out of Paris. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. A cogent, no holds barred mid 1980s travelogue of America by the..... More
Candles and Carnival Lights: The Catholic Sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York University Press, 1978. Cloth. A clean, well-preserved copy of the uncommon 1978 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. More
The Followers of William Blake: Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond & Their Circle
London: 1925. Cloth. A handsome copy of the 1925 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in its light-brown cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Light wear at the spine crown, just a touch of very light fraying to the rear outer hinge. Tall quarto, top-edge gilt. 8..... More
Creators of Wonderland SIGNED
New York: Arrow Editions (The Rydal Press), 1934. John Tenniel. Decorative Cloth. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR MARGUERITE MESPOULET IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION on the half-title. (ALSO INCLUDES A HANDWRITTEN NOTE BY THE AUTHOR LAID-IN). A handsome copy to boot of the 1934 1st edition, in this case #22 of an unspecified limitation..... More
Yeats: The Man and the Masks
London: Macmillan & Co., 1949. Cloth. A solid, very sharp copy of the 1949 1st UK edition (preceded by an American edition a year earlier). Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with very mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, frontispiece portrait of Yeats..... More
The Art of Noel Coward
Aldington, England: The Hand and Flower Press, 1953. Boards. INSCRIBED BY NOEL COWARD on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1953 1st edition. Clean and VG (a number of spots of denting at the rear panel) in a crisp, VG dustjacket, which shows matching denting/scuffing..... More
Annotations to Finnegan's Wake
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. 1st. Cloth. A tight, solid copy of the 1980 1st edition. VG+ in its dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine. Small former owner stamp to the front free endpaper and pencil underlining at the first 4 or 5 pgs..... More
Bloomsday: An Interpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses SIGNED
Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Saul Field. Limited. Decorative Cloth. The 1972 SIGNED/LIMITED edition. #106 of 250 copies signed by both the author Morton Levitt and the illustrator Saul Field and "containing an original engraving printed on Arches 'Lavis-Trait' paper". A very sharp copy to boot. Immaculate and..... More
Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 1st. Cloth. A crisp, tight copy of the 1994 1st edition. Solid and VG+ (with small former owner stamp at the front feee endpaper and light underlining only to the first 8 or 9 pgs.) in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 269 pgs. More
The Literature of the Scottish Gael
Edinburgh and London: William Hodge and Company, 1912. 1st. Cloth. 1912 1st edition. VG- in its original red cloth, with soiling to the panel edges and light fading to the spine's gilt-lettering. Octavo, 80 pgs. More
The Autobiographical Outline for Look Homeward, Angel
The Thomas Wolfe Society, 1991. Pictorial boards. A very sharp copy of the 1991 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial boards, with just a touch of light bumping to the front lower-tip. Quarto, edited by Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy. "This book is number 548 in..... More
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination SIGNED
Canbridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Boards. SIGNED BY TONI MORRISON on the half-title. An immaculate copy to boot of the 1992 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Part of the William C. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization" More